Letter to the Editor

I hold Desert Valley Times in high regard. I appreciate the printed page I can pick up and review. I am 88 years old, a snowbird from Wyoming, a cattle rancher, retired, major owner of Whitney Ranches Inc., Lincoln County, Wyoming. I've seen the encroachment of the "big government" (BLM, U.S. Forest, Fish and Game, Trout Unlimited, environmentalists, and oil exploration). We, individual ranchers, owned thousands of unfenced acres enclosed, surrounded, mingled with federal lands. Being unfenced, we were forced to submit to federal control limiting us to only 90 days on our property. We shared our lands with 1,000 elk, that many deer, antelope and all the predators. There was always something new coming down.

I know what the Bundy family is going through, I've been there. The common citizen is oblivious, he fails to realize how much he is involved, how much it's costing him, how much he is losing in these actions. This isn't happening just to the Bundy family, it involves each of us, all of us, even those men involved in the actual roundup. They are innocent victims, hood-winked, employed to do the business of an illegal enterprise. They don't realize how much it will cost them in the end.

Further, don't let "them" tell you of all the harm those Bundy cows are doing to that precious desert land. Every single cow out there is benefiting the land without harm to the little desert tortoise or to any other little creature. Actually, there is symbiosis, they all benefit from each other. With every breath each cow is emitting carbon dioxide essential to all plant growth. Her manure is contributing to the nutrition of the barren soil. Cows and all other animals don't destroy they process and help replenish

The Bundy family has done much to provide water where none was available. The Bundy family will survive. The evil, the harm the "big government" and BLM is doing will exist forever, bringing cost to us in the grocery store.

Cal Price

Mesquite

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Letter to the Editor

I hold Desert Valley Times in high regard. I appreciate the printed page I can pick up and review. I am 88 years old, a snowbird from Wyoming, a cattle rancher, retired, major owner of Whitney